In reality, I'm working on a new blog, (Sort Of) Sustainable Summer. It's me rambling about my attempts to feed my family this summer using mostly locally- and/or organically-grown foods. I'll be collecting and sharing my resources, both national and local, and talking about how I'm weaning my kid off string cheese and V-Fusion and onto real food. When I find good recipes - ones that even my non-locavore friends will eat - I'll pass them along, and hopefully all our lives will be tastier as a result.
The project is just starting right now - I'm about done with the research, and I'm almost ready to pack away all of my processed "food" items and start eating better ... just as soon as I get back from vacation in early June. Because if you look at our handy made-just-this-morning harvest calendar, you'll notice that May is pretty darn sparse on local produce when you live in the snow belt.
And since I don't have a pantry full of local produce I "put up" last summer - and I do have a pantry full of crap we bought and probably should eat up - we'll take baby steps until June.
So pop on over to the new blog and check it out. You won't find much in the way of ranting or proselytizing, but hopefully you'll find it interesting. And if it makes you think about your food in new ways, well, then that's a good thing.
Also - cute pictures on farms and stuff! Just wait until we go visit the lady who raises chickens down at the end of our street ...
2 comments:
But the first guess about your hidden identity was "mushroom farming"?!
This is great Gretchen! I've been buying mostly organic food for years, try to buy locally as often as possible, and plan on starting a garden in our back yard (we just moved!)next year (although, we might just get some late summer veggies out this year). I'll use your new blog as a guide! Good luck, and I look forward to watching your successes and failures and learning from them myself ;-)
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